Hidden History: A Collection of Forgotten Mysteries, Oddities, and Unknown Stories from True History

By Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-61001-063-4. 204pp List Price $13.99

A collection of stories from true history. Forgotten tales, unsolved mysteries, strange oddities, and little-remembered incidents from the past. Includes--Who Really Shot Down the Red Baron? Was The Pirate Captain Kidd Actually Innocent? The True Story of the "Escape From Alcatraz". Did The "WOW!" Signal Come From ETs? The Day the Cops Bombed Philadelphia. The Strange Journey of Einstein's Brain. The Story Behind the Kalashnikov AK-47. The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty. The Strangest Wars in History. And more. Illustrated.

Hidden History 2: Another Collection of Forgotten Mysteries, Oddities, and Unknown Stories From True History

by Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-61001-064-1. 200pp, List price $13.99

A collection of stories from true history. Forgotten tales, unsolved mysteries, and little-remembered incidents from the past. Includes: How Vasiliy Arkhipov Saved the World; What if the Moon Landing Had Failed?; Presidential Assassination Attempts; The Real Story of the Outlaw Jesse James; The Most Successful Fighter Pilot in History; America's Most Radical Founding Father; Edison, Westinghouse, and the "Current Wars"; and more. Illustrated.

Hidden History 3: A New Collection of Forgotten Mysteries, Oddities, and Unknown Stories From True History

By Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-61001-072-6. 202 pp, List Price $13.99

A collection of oddities and forgotten stories from history. Includes: Martha, the Last Passenger Pigeon; The Tokaimura Nuclear Accident; The American Carrier Attacks on Pearl Harbor; The Republic of West Florida; Coxey's Army, the First "Occupiers"; The Strange History of Corn Flakes; Jimmy Stewart and the Abominable Snowman; and How John Leal Put Poison in Our Drinking Water and Saved Us All. Illustrated.

Museum Pieces: The Forgotten History, Science, and Mystery Behind Some of the Most Interesting Museum Exhibits and Historical Places

By Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-61001-066-5. 200pp. List Price $13.99

The story behind some of the most interesting exhibits in the most museums of the world, from the Smithsonian, the London Natural History Museum, the Chicago Field Museum, Oslo's Viking Ship Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and others. Includes: "Sue", the most complete T rex skeleton ever found; how a little piece of Mars ended up on exhibit in Chicago; Ohka, the only airplane deliberately designed to kill its pilot; Drakkar, the Viking longship; the Hope Diamond and its curse; Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space; the Liberty Bell's trip from Philadelphia to Allentown, and others. Photos.

Museum Pieces 2: More Forgotten History, Science, and Mystery Behind Some of the Most Interesting Museum Exhibits and Historical Places in the World

By Lenny Flank. ISBN 978-1-61001-065-8. 200pp. List price $13.99

The unknown story behind historical places and exhibits from some of the most famous museums in the world, including the Smithsonian, the Field Museum, and others. Includes: Chicago 1968, The Whole World Was Watching; The Life and Death of Skylab; Airphibian, The Car That Flies; Gettysburg, The Strange Story of Private Wesley Culp; When Whales Walked; America's Oldest City; and more. Illustrated.

Voices From the 99 Percent: An Oral History of the
Occupy Wall Street Movement

ISBN 978-1-610010-221, Paperback 6x9, 336pp, List Price $15.99.

"This is the first communique from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall
Street." With those words, the Occupy Wall Street movement announced its
presence to the world. Within just four weeks, the Occupy movement spread across
the country and around the globe, and drastically changed the terms of political
debate in the US. OWS is the first mass movement to appear in the US during the
Internet age. Technically savvy, the Occupiers posted events as they happened,
on the Web, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, YouTube, livestreams, blogs, and other
online resources. There were gripping accounts of being in the center of police
actions in Boston and New York. There were hopeful pleas for social change.
There were energetic calls to action. There were thoughtful descriptions of a
new way of political organizing that had never been seen before in the US,
revolving around words like "General Assemblies" and
"consensus" and "Working Groups". OWS was not only making
history--it was writing it as well. This is the story of Occupy Wall Street, in
its own words. All proceeds from this book are being donated to the Occupy Wall
Street Movement.

Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a
Financial Collapse

In the first decade of the 21st century, the entire ideology of free market
and deregulation failed spectacularly, as Wall Street melted down and the entire
global economy collapsed into the deepest economic disaster since the Great
Depression. It was greed-pure unfettered greed-which produced the collapse. This
report by the US Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations, spells out the whole
sad story, of how rampant greed and naked self-interest were allowed to take the
entire nation-indeed even the entire global economic structure-to the brink of
total collapse; how deregulation became license; how free market became too big
to fail; how gamblers on Wall Street lost billions on risky bets, and how the
taxpayers came to bail them out.

The Afghanistan Papers: A Selection of Leaked US Military Field Reports From
the Afghan War

ISBN 978-1-610010-009, Paperback 6x9, 404pp, List Price $16.99.

The Afghanistan War from the inside. Over 800 classified reports by the
troops in the field, presenting the reality of how the war is being fought on
the ground. Assassinations, demonstrations, ambushes, IEDs. The unvarnished
truth about the insurgent war that we are not winning.

World, Incorporated: The History of the
Supra-National Corporation and its Global Stranglehold on Freedom and Democracy

It has become a truism in politics that "corporations have
become too powerful". Few people understand, however, that there has been a
vast shift in global power between 1990 and 2010; corporate power has now
exceeded national power and global economic structures now have unchecked
control over democratic governments. Power has passed to multi-national
corporations who have no country, owe allegiance to no government, and answer to
no nation. They have become supra-national. This book is a history of
corporations, as they grew from small tightly-controlled public works to huge
quasi-governmental behemoths who now have literal veto power over elected
national governments.

State
of the Union: Selected Annual Presidential Addresses to Congress, from George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, George Bush,
Barack Obama and Others

ISBN 978-1-934941-59-1. Paperback 6x9, 372pp, List Price $16.99.

Selected State of the Union speeches from George Washington to Barack Obama.
The War of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Great
Depression, World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, Vietnam and Civil
Rights, the end of the Cold War, the First Persian Gulf War, 9-11 and the Second
Persian Gulf War, and the 2008 Economic Meltdown.

Complete inaugural addresses of all the American Presidents. "With
malice toward none, with charity for all." -- Lincoln. "The only
thing we have to fear is -- fear itself." -- Roosevelt. "Ask not
what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
-- Kennedy.

The Great Communicator: Selected Speeches of President Ronald Reagan

ISBN 978-1-934941-79-9. Paperback 6x9, 404pp, List Price $16.99

A selection of speeches from Ronald Reagan. The conservative "Reagan
Revolution", of free-market economics, the Religious Right, and American
military power, dominated American politics for three decades. This volume
includes the "Evil Empire" speech, the "Government is the
problem" speech, the "Tear down this Wall" speech, and many
others.

The SALT II Treaty Debate: The Cold War Congressional
Hearings Over Nuclear Weapons and Soviet-American Arms Control

By 1979, the Cold War was raging for some 30 years, and both the Soviet Union
and the United States had built up huge arsenals of nuclear weapons-enough
destructive power to kill every human on the planet several times over. In 1979,
the SALT II nuclear weapons reduction treaty was signed by President Jimmy
Carter and was submitted to the US Senate for ratification. Despite a public
approval rating of 70%, the SALT II treaty ran into stiff opposition from the
newly-emerging conservative political movement. Hawkish conservative groups were
philosophically opposed to arms control, and instead favored a sharp increase in
American military power. After Ronald Reagan won the 1980 elections, the Cold
War re-ignited--the US undertook its most massive military expansion since the
Second World War. This volume presents a selection of testimony before the US
Senate's Foreign Relations Committee during the debate over the ratification of
SALT II. The arguments that were made in 1979 reflect the tenor of those times,
when the Cold War against the "Evil Empire" was about to heat up again
to white hot levels, and when nuclear tensions reached their highest points
since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in
South Africa

ISBN 978-1-934941-78-2. Paperback 6x9. 290pp, List Price $14.99.

For 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver
Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the white supremacist
apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the
armed military wing of the ANC, Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging
as a worldwide symbol of human freedom. In 1994, Mandela became President of
South Africa, in the first free election in that nation's history. This
anthology is a collection of Mandela's speeches and writings, from his statement
to the South African court that sentenced him to life in prison, to his
acceptance of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, to his speeches as South Africa's
first elected Black President. Preface gives brief biography.

Hell's
Fire: A Documentary History of the American Atomic and Thermonuclear Weapons
Projects, From Hiroshima to the Cold War and the War on Terror

ISBN 978-1-934941-10-2. Paperback 6x9, 448pp, List price $17.99.

A history of
nuclear weapons, from the Manhattan Project which built the atomic bomb, to the
"Mike" test which paved the way for the hydrogen bomb, to the
"war on terror" which seeks an entire new generation of
"earth-penetrating" nuclear bombs. From official histories and
declassified reports. Over 75 photos and illustrations.

A history of the anti-evolution "Intelligent Design" movement in the US, from the Scopes trial in 1925, through the rise of creation "science" in the 1980's, to the rise of intelligent design "theory" in the 1990's. Appendix includes the Wedge Document,
a leaked internal document which spells out the theocratic political goals of the Intelligent Design movement.

"Its real achievement is in providing a meaningful socio-historical
context to the creation-evolution 'debate' in the US. . . .
Recommended reading for all that fear the encroachment of the religious right,
everywhere in the world."

Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans:
1976 US Senate Report on Illegal Wiretaps and Domestic Spying by the FBI, CIA
and NSA

When it was first revealed that the Bush Administration had implemented a
secret program of warrantless wiretaps and domestic spying on US citizens, few
Americans knew that all of this had happened before. In the early 1970's,
it was revealed that US government agencies, including the FBI, CIA, NSA and
IRS, were being used as part of a deliberate plan to infiltrate and disrupt
political opponents, and this plan had continued for 20 years under four
different Presidents, both Democratic and Republican.

This report by the Senate Select Committee details the elaborate efforts by
the FBI, CIA and NSA to spy on Americans by tapping their telephones, by
intercepting and copying their mail, and even by burglarizing their homes (known
as "black bag jobs").

In response to this report, Congress established the FISA courts to regulate
domestic wiretaps -- the same FISA courts that Bush bypassed when he directed
the NSA to once again spy on Americans without court approval or oversight.

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: A
Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace in Palestine

A collection of 35 documents concerning the 100-year-old conflict over
Palestine. The Balfour Declaration, the Sykes-Picot treaty, the League of
Nations Mandate, the Peel Commission report, both British White Papers, the
report of the UN Special Committee on Palestine, the Declaration of the State of
Israel, the Palestine National Charter, the Camp David Accords, the Olso and
Oslo II Accords, the Road Map, the Disengagement Plan, the Political Program of
Hamas, and all the relevant United Nations Resolutions. Preface gives a brief
historical summary.

by the Church Committee ISBN 978-1-61001-023-8. 288pp, list price $14.99

The report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, which investigated American covert actions to assassinate foreign leaders, including Diem, Lumumba, Trujillo, and Castro. Describes over a dozen CIA attempts to work jointly with the American Mafia to kill Castro using biological toxins.

Part conspiracy trial, part political theater, the trial of seven activists
who disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, was an iconic event of
the 1960's. Here, from trial transcripts, are the testimony of Abbie
Hoffman, Rennie Davis, Bobby Seale, and others.

"This book will take you inside the courtroom through the actual
transcript. Read what Abbie Hoffman actually said- not just a summary."

The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With
Respect To Intelligence Activities

The final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the
decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and
"neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the
civil rights movement to be "Communist", and did everything in his
power to destroy it.

This New Ocean: The Official
History of Project Mercury

NASA's official history of Project Mercury, America's effort to get a man
into space. Covers the development of the rocket boosters, the selection and
training of the astronauts, the design of the Mercury spacecraft, the test
launches, and all six manned Mercury flights, including Alan Shepard, the first
American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit.

At the Edge of the Abyss: A
Declassified Documentary History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

In the last two weeks of October 1962, the world came closer to nuclear
warfare than it ever has. For 14 tense days, United States President John F
Kennedy and Soviet Premiere Nikita Kruschev stood eyeball to eyeball, each with
his hand on the nuclear trigger. In the end, both sides blinked. This volume is
a collection of declassified documents from American and Soviet archives,
detailing the history of those two weeks. Preface gives an overview and timeline
of the crisis.

JFK: Selected Speeches of President John F Kennedy

In the short 1000 days of his Presidency, John F Kennedy accomplished more
than most Presidents did in two full terms. He founded the Peace Corps and the
Alliance for Progress, launched the American space program and introduced the
Civil Rights Act, led the nation through the greatest threat ever to its
existence -- the Cuban Missile Crisis -- and then signed the first nuclear
disarmament agreement, the Test Ban Treaty, with the USSR. Kennedy was also a
masterful and engaging speaker. This is an anthology of his most prominent
speeches, including his Inaugural Address ("Ask not what your country can
do for you, ask what you can do for your country"), his speech setting the
goal of "before the end of this decade, of landing a man on the moon and
returning him safely to earth", his speech in Berlin ("Ich bein ein
Berliner"), and the text of the speech he was to deliver in Dallas on
November 22, 1963.

United States Army in the Korean War: The First Year,
From the Invasion to the Beginning of Negotiations

The official Pentagon history of the first year of the Korean War. Covers the
North Korean invasion, the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon landings, the drive on
the Yalu, the Chinese invasion, Chosin Reservoir, the firing of General
MacArthur, and the stabilization of the front at the 38th Parallel.

From the official record of the Nazi war crimes trial. The Indictment document, the prosecution's opening statement, selected testimony from survivors and Nazi officials, and the prosecution's summary closing statement.

The Aleutians Campaign: The
Official Navy History of the Only World War Two Invasion of US Soil

In 1942, the Japanese seized two islands in the Aleutian chain off the coast
of Alaska. Over the next 15 months, the Navy and Marines waged a campaign to
take back the islands, a prolonged fight in which the bitter cold and howling
winds made the weather more dangerous than the Japanese.

Island Battles of the Pacific:
Iwo Jima and Okinawa

The battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, excerpted from the Marine Corp's
official five-volume history of the Second World War. Iwo Jima and Okinawa were
pivotal in the fight against Japan during World War Two.

The Ardennes: The Official History of the Battle of
the Bulge

The official US Army History of the Ardennes offensive in France during World
War II, known as the "Battle of the Bulge". From the planning of the
Nazi offensive until the final American push ended Hitler's last desperate
gamble for victory. Based on American and German records, by the US Army's
Historical Department.

Between 1933 and 1944, President Franklin D Roosevelt used the new medium of
radio to address the nation. During the Great Depression and the Second
World War, Roosevelt spoke to Americans about his plans for economic recovery,
the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and other
topics. Contains the complete text of all thirty Fireside Chats.

FDR: Selected Speeches of
President Franklin D Roosevelt

The longest-serving President in American history, Franklin D Roosevelt led
the nation through its two most lethal challenges of the 20th century - the
Great Depression and the Second World War. This is a collection of FDR's most
stirring speeches, from his First Inaugural Address ('the only thing we have
fear is fear itself"), to his speeches outlining the New Deal and opposing
the "economic royalty" ("I welcome their hatred"), to his
call for a declaration of war with Japan ("a date which will live in
infamy"), the Atlantic Charter, and his joint statement with Stalin and
Churchill at Yalta.

Rise and Fall of the Leninist State: A Marxist History
of the Soviet Union

An economic history of the Soviet Union, from its inception in 1917 to its
demise in 1991. It is in the economics of the Leninist state, not its
politics or ideology, that we find the seeds of its destruction. By
examining the economics of the USSR, we can see not only why the Russian
Revolution took the course that it did, but why it could not have taken any
other path.

The German Revolution: Writings on the Failed
Communist Rebellion in 1918-1919

Two contemporary accounts of the German Revolution which overthrew the Kaiser
and established the Weimar Republic, and the failed attempt by Rosa Luxemburg
and Karl Liebknecht's Spartacus group (the KPD-Communist Party of Germany) to
establish a Soviet Republic in Germany.

In the aftermath of the First World War, the United States sent 13,000 troops
into the Soviet Union in support of the Tsarist White Russian army, in an
attempt to crush the Bolshevik government that had assumed power in the Russian
Revolution. Written by three American doughboys who fought in Russia, this
is a firsthand account of the only time in history that American troops directly
fought Red Army troops.

"This book addresses a little known history of the US military and its
involvement in Russia in the aftermath of the Communist revolution. . . .
Due to the date of its writing some of the language appears stilted but that
doesn't detract from the story told. This is an important book for any true
history fan and can explain a lot about the rocky relationship Russia (USSR) and
the US experience till this day."

The autobiography of the "Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen,
written shortly before his death in April 1918. New introduction gives a
brief history of the birth of aerial combat. Illustrated with 14
pages of photographs.

"I enjoyed reading it . . . . A good addition to the mountain of work on
this famous man."

--George Miller, "Cross and Cockade International Journal", First
World War Aviation Historical Society

Kitchener's Mob: A Firsthand Account of the
Adventures of an American Volunteer in the British Army during the First World
War

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Army was
completely unprepared, and the British Secretary of State For War, Lord Herbert
Kitchener, issued a call for volunteers. The mass of unorganized trainees was
called "Kitchener's Mob". This is the eyewitness account of an
American citizen living in London who volunteered to join Kitchener's Mob and
was sent to the trenches in France, just in time for the first stages of the
Battle of the Somme.

The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille: A History of the American Volunteer Air Squadron in World War One, Told By Its Commander

by Georges Thenault. ISBN 978-1-61001-068-9. 134pp. List Price $13.99

When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the United States declared its neutrality. But a handful of American citizens nevertheless went to Europe and volunteered to fight for France against the Germans. Using French aircraft, they formed a squadron that became known as the "Lafayette Escadrille". This is the story of the Lafayette Squadron, as told by its French Commander, Captain Georges Thenault. Illustrated, and with new Introduction.

The Titanic Reports: The Official Conclusions
of the 1912 Inquiries Into the Titanic Disaster by the US Senate and the
British Wreck Commission

by the US Senate and the British Wreck Commissioner. ISBN:
978-1-934941-11-9. Paperback 6x9. 175pp. List price $12.99

The official reports of the 1912 American and British inquiries into the Titanic.
"Report of the United States Senate Committee to Investigate the Causes of
the Loss of the White Star Liner Titanic" and "The British
Wreck Commissioner's Report on the Loss of the Titanic". With
8 pages of photos.

Lawrence Beesley, a British schoolteacher, was a second-class passenger on
the Titanic when it hit an iceberg and sank in two and a half
hours. This is Beesley's eyewitness account, written just weeks after the
sinking, of his voyage on the Titanic, the collision with the iceberg,
his hours in Lifeboat 13, and his rescue by the Carpathia. A
classic account of the story of Titanic. With six pages of photos.

"The story will give you goosebumps down your spine and allow you to
experience the tragedy yourself. This book cannot begin to compare to the other
stories of the Titanic. It's power comes from a first hand account that provides
more information than a fact book can tell you."

An account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole, by Norwegian
explorer Roald Amundsen. Losing the race to the North Pole to the American
Robert Peary, Amundsen turned to the South Pole instead, and reached it just
four weeks before his rival, the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
With twenty pages of photos.

Insurgent Mexico: With Pancho Villa in the Mexican
Revolution

In 1910, Mexican peasant Pancho Villa led a rebellion against the wealthy
landowners, and fought to redistribute land to the poor Mexican
"peons" who worked it for the absentee owners, in what has been called
the "first socialist revolution". Originally published as a
series of newspaper dispatches, Insurgent Mexico was written by American
journalist John Reed (author of Ten Days that Shook the World) who lived
with the Mexican rebels, made friends with Pancho Villa, and was nearly killed
during a battle with Mexican government forces. With ten pages of photos.

A History of Early Aviation

The pioneers of aviation. The firsthand account by the Wright Brothers of
their early experiments with gliders and the first powered flight, and William J
Claxton's account of early balloon flight and aircraft development to World War
One.

"The first three articles by Orville and Wilbur Wright were very good.
Written by the two people on earth that really knew what they were doing."

The End of Hawaii's Independence: An Autobiographical
History by Hawaii's Last Monarch

In 1895, an American diplomat, acting along with prominent American figures
in Hawaii, used United States troops to overthrow the monarchy and annex the
Hawaiian Islands to the US. This is the story of the end of Hawaiian
independence, as told by the island's last monarch, Queen Liliuokalani.
Originally published under the title "Hawaii's Story" in 1898.

Revolution in Pennsylvania: A History of the Railroad
Union Strike and the "Great Uprising of 1877"

In June 1877, a railroad company in West Virginia cut its worker's wages by
ten percent. The workers went on strike and refused to move any trains until the
cut was revoked, and the strike quickly spread. Within days, the entire country
was paralyzed as strikers occupied all the key railroad hubs. Over 100 people
were killed in street clashes with state militia and Federal troops. The strike
lasted 45 days and ended only when US Army troops occupied all the railroad
centers. It was the largest labor rebellion in American history. This history of
the Great Strike was written by St Louis newspaperman Joseph Dacus just a few
months after the rebellion.

The Autobiography of Geronimo

The Apache war chief Geronimo's story of his life. Originally published as
"Geronimo; His Own Story". Geronimo also describes Apache culture and
religion, and pleads for better treatment of his people by the United States.

The autobiography of Col. William F Cody, known as "Buffalo
Bill". An icon of the Old West, Buffalo Bill won his nickname in a
bison-hunting contest while working for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. Cody
served as a scout for the US Cavalry, and worked for a time as a Pony Express
rider. In 1883 he formed the Wild West Show, which toured the East Coast
and Europe and popularized the image of the untamed Wild West.

The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid: A Biography of
William Bonney by the Sheriff Who Knew Him, and Killed Him

The biography of the outlaw William Bonney, "Billy the Kid", who
made his name in the bloody "Lincoln County War" in New Mexico.
Written by Sheriff Pat Garrett, who knew Bonney personally, captured him, and,
after the Kid's daring escape from jail, finally killed him.

My Life on the Plains: General George Custer's
Firsthand Account of the Washita Campaign

by General George A Custer. ISBN: 978-1-61001-009-2. Paperback 6x9, 302pp,
List Price $14.99

An autobiography by General George Armstrong Custer, written a few years
before he departed for the Montana campaign and died at the Battle of the Little
Bighorn. Covers the period of Custer's life from the end of the Civil War to his
campaign against the Sioux and Cheyenne, culminating in the Battle of the
Washita in 1868.

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E Lee

The life and collected letters of General Robert E Lee, as presented by his
son, Captain Robert E Lee. The remarkable life of a man who, though by all
accounts a kind, gracious and generous gentleman, nevertheless took up arms to
defend a regime that practiced the indefensible -- human slavery. With 10
pages of photos.

Memoirs of General William T Sherman: Shiloh,
Vicksburg, and the March to the Sea

General William T Sherman's firsthand account of the Civil War. From Shiloh
to Vicksburg to the March to the Sea, General Sherman's campaign crippled
the Confederacy and led to Union victory. With eight pages of photos.

The Autobiography of General Ulysses S Grant: Memoirs
of the Civil War

Excerpted from Grant's two-volume autobiography. The American Civil
War, as told by General Ulysses S Grant, who led the Union Armies to victory
over the Confederacy. Original maps illustrate the battles of Shiloh,
Vicksburg, The Wilderness, and the surrender at Appomattox. With 14 pages
of photos.

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson: A
Firsthand Account of the Army of Northern Virginia Under Robert E Lee in the
Civil War

The battles of the Civil War, from the Confederate view. Edward A
Moore, a gunner with the Rockbridge artillery battery, fought in the battles of
First and Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor and
Appomattox. With ten pages of photos.

Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: An Eyewitness Account
of the Pivotal Battles of the Civil War

Although best-known as the inventor of baseball, Abner Doubleday was also a
Union General during the Civil War. This is General Doubleday's firsthand
account of the pivotal battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. With 40 pages
of maps and original Civil War photos.

Life Under Slavery:
Autobiographies of Three American Slaves

Autoibiographies of three pre-Civil War African-American
slaves. "Northerners know nothing at all about Slavery. They think it is
perpetual bondage only. They have no conception of the depth of degradation
involved in that word, slavery; if they had, they would never cease their
efforts until so horrible a system was overthrown."

The War With Mexico: The Classic History of the
Mexican-American War

The Mexican-American War in 1846 was an under-appreciated moment in American
history. It marked the beginning of the military careers of many of those who
would go on to fight the Civil War two decades later--including Robert E Lee and
Ulysses S Grant. It took General Zachary Taylor to the Presidency, and
re-ignited the debate over slavery that would later result in secession. During
the war, Mexico, under the leadership of Santa Anna, lost over half of its
national territory to the US and many Mexicans now found themselves on the wrong
side of the border and living in the United States--a situation with direct
bearing on current Mexican-US immigration. Justin H Smith's classic history of
the war, written in 1919 from official archives in both countries, depicts the
US as the wronged party, but many Americans at the time viewed the Mexican War
as simply an American land grab, in which a large strong nation bullied
territorial concessions from a smaller weaker neighbor.

The
Bounty Mutiny: Captain William Bligh's Firsthand Account of the Last
Voyage of HMS Bounty

On April 28, 1789, the crew of the HMS Bounty, returning from Tahiti with a
cargo of breadfruit plants, mutinied and set their captain and 17 crew members
adrift in a small boat. In a remarkable feat of seamanship, Bligh took the
23-foot boat over 3600 miles, in 41 days, to safety in Indonesia. This is
Bligh's own account of the mutiny and his incredible voyage to safety.

The Great French Revolution
1789-1793

The Great French Revolution is Peter Kropotkin's classic account of the
history of the upheavels from 1789 to 1793. Although Kropotkin is best known as
the chief theorist for the political theory of anarchism, he was also a highly
educated man (a member of the Russian nobility), a skilled historian, and a
compelling and powerful writer. This sweeping account is written not from the
point of view of great leaders, politicians or speechmakers, but from the great
mass of ordinary French people, who began the Revolution on their own and who,
at every crucial stage, took to the streets on their own initiative to carry the
Revolution forward, to end autocracy and introduce democracy.

The Federalist Papers

In 1787, the US Constitution was sent to the state legislatures
for ratification. Intended to replace the Articles of Confederation, the new
Constitution replaced the loose confederation of states with a strong central
Federal government to which the states would be subordinated. The Federalist
Papers were written by some of the authors of the Constitution, as a series
of letters to New York newspapers, explaining how the proposed Constitution
would work and why the state legislatures should vote for its ratification.

Writings of Thomas Paine: A
Collection of Pamphlets from America's Most Radical Founding Father

An anthology of writings from Thomas Paine, including "Common
Sense", "African Slavery in America", "An Occasional Letter
on the Female Sex", "Agrarian Justice", "The Rights of
Man", and "The Age of Reason". Paine's radical views on the
abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women, the redistribution of wealth
and social equality, and religion, made him an outcast even among his fellow
American Revolutionaries. Even today, he remains the only major figure of the
American Revolution who has no monument anywhere in Washington DC.

Three Views of Independence: Firsthand Accounts of the
Revolutionary War From An American Patriot, An American Tory, and a French
Volunteer

Three firsthand accounts of the American Revolutionary War. Ebenezer Fox
enlisted in the patriot militia before joining the US Navy, where he was
captured and escaped from a British prison barge. The Chevalier de Pontgibaud
was a French aristocrat who joined Washington's army at Valley Forge. David
Fanning formed a loyalist pro-British militia under Cornwallis's command and
fought several battles against the patriots.

Swamp Fox: General Francis Marion and his Guerrilla
Fighters of the American Revolutionary War

During the American Revolutionary War, General Francis Marion, known as the "Swamp Fox", waged a guerrilla war
against British forces under General Tarleton, harrassing them and eventually driving the British Army out of
South Carolina. This book, written by one of his militia members, tells the story of the Swamp Fox.

The
Buccaneers of America: A Firsthand Account of Life with the Caribbean Pirates
Pierre la Grande, Francis Lolonois, and Captain Henry Morgan

In 1666, John Esquemeling arrived at the Caribbean island of Tortuga as an
indentured servant of the French West India Company. After gaining his freedom,
Esquemeling joined the pirates who had made Tortuga their hideout, and sailed
with the pirates Pierre la Grande, Francis Lolonois, and Captain Henry Morgan as
a surgeon. This is Esquemeling's firsthand account, published in Holland
in 1678, of his life with the buccaneers of America. With ten pages of engraved
illustrations.

The Digger Movement: Radical Communalism
in the English Civil War

In 1649, during the English Civil Wars, a radical peasant
movement appeared under the leadership of Gerrard Winstanley, a Protestant
religious reformer. Inspired by Biblical sources, Winstanley argued in
favor of a radical egalitarian society in which all men would live freely in
communal villages, where property ownership, rent and wages were all abolished.
His followers were originally called the True Levellers, but quickly became
known as The Diggers.

In the late 9th century, under King Alfred the Great of England,
scholars compiled a history of the island from the invasion by Julius Caesar to
the year 891. The narrative, drawn from many historical accounts, was known as
the Anglo Saxon Chronicles. After Alfred's death, the Chronicles were continued,
with some versions being updated yearly until 1154. Today, the Anglo Saxon
Chronicles are the most important source for early English history. Among
the events described in the Chronicles are the Roman withdrawal from Britain,
the first Viking raids on the island, and the Battle of Hastings that led tom
Norman rule.

A 5th century training manual for the organization, weapons and
tactics of the Roman Legions. Vegetius's De Rei Militari was the
only major work of Roman military science to survive from classical times.
It was widely studied in the Middle Ages and was a key source for Medieval
warfare and siege tactics.

A contemporary biography of the first twelve Caesars of the
Roman Empire, including Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius,
Nero, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The author Suetonius was personal
secretary to the Emperor Hadrian.

The Gallic Wars is Julius Caesar's firsthand
account of the Roman conquest of Gaul, in modern-day France. Books I through VII
are Caesar's own written dispatches to the Roman Senate, while Book VIII was
added later by Aulus Hirtius.

The classic account of the war between Persia's King Xerxes and
the Greeks. Includes the battle at Marathon, the naval battle at Salamis,
and the fight between the Persians and Spartans at Thermopylae.